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...materials and the exchange of professors and students between the two countries, as well as the avoidance of automatic skepticism, were stressed. “The type of label-thinking which has characterized this country’s official view towards the Soviet Union is becoming too costly to maintain. There is a certain stage at which open hostility and cynicism begins to pay diminishing returns... Perhaps the current American reaction of automatic skepticism towards everything that Russia does or says or promises is a natural after-effect of the Great Awakening, the days when the U.S. first recognized...
...dominated her opponent in the gold-medal match was just unbelievable.” Adds Brand, “Emily Cross certainly has proven that persistence and hard work and determination pays off. She’s one of those people, a rare breed of people, who can maintain focus throughout the year at a place like Harvard where there are a lot of distractions.” Next season, Cross will move into senior competition with the ultimate goal of joining the U.S. Olympic team in 2008. To begin to prepare herself, she will start off slowly, testing...
...year started encouragingly, with Harvard capturing its sixth straight win at the Stonehurst Regatta and then returning home for a resoundingly successful performance at the Head of the Charles. The Stonehurst winning streak, however, would prove to be one of the few that the Crimson would be able to maintain over the course of its season. Five years of perfect dual races came to an end in the Stein Cup, as Harvard suffered a heartbreakingly close, one-seat loss to the Bears. The Crimson had come from behind to erase an early Brown six-seat lead and even take...
...course, five months remain before the elections, so the political dynamics could change. But the discussion among Democratic strategists and pols now is not whether they can win, but how to maintain their lead in the polls. There's at least three things Democrats agree the party needs to do to keep that lead and win in November...
...accept the principle that - at least for defined period - there would be no industrial-scale uranium enrichment on its own soil; the fuel for its nuclear reactors would be produced abroad and shipped back when spent. But Iran may hold out for a deal that allows it to maintain its 164-centrifuge enrichment cascade at Natanz for research purposes, under additional supervision if necessary. That cascade is too small to create bomb material, but the U.S. and its allies believe even research-scale enrichment would provide critical know-how and could also camouflage any covert bomb program. The issue...